That's a much better price! I'll maybe buy one book and see if he likes it.
Loy, we have the SAME problem with DS. When he did the WJ math section he refused to write ANYTHING down except for the fluency section where he had to write his answer. He would rather do long division in his head than write down the problem. And of course this leads to silly errors. Kids this age don't have good enough working memories to do multi-step problems in their head and not make mistakes.
DS's last teacher basically MADE him write things down. If he did it without being reminded, she gave him a WOW and starbursts. He has problems lining numbers up, so she gave him graph paper with large squares, and sent it home with his homework as well. The funny thing is, is that Dreambox seems to actually encourage them to do it in their heads. DS did units on "addition and subtraction strategies" which actually discouraged the use of the "regular algorithm." Since he is dyspraxic, that makes everything worse in terms of writing. It's really hard for him physically.
